WJPA regularly broadcasts games of the Washington & Jefferson College football team, minor league baseball team, the Washington Wild Things, area high school wrestling matches and area high school basketball.

It was one of the last stations the FCC permitted to go on the air prior to the United States' entry into World War II.

In the summer of 1979, after years of afternoon office-music broadcasts, WJPA-FM switched to a new, album rock format and changed its call letters to WYTK-FM.

The WJPA broadcast facilities are located at the corner of Main St. and East Wheeling St. across from the Observer-Reporter newspaper offices.

Pete "I Got The Beat" Povich (personally nicknamed by The Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle) is the longest tenured DJ at WJPA, having worked there since 1983.